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To the editor:
I read the editorial in The Breeze last Friday, "Honor and defend." That is a challenging article. The part that is most challenging is the all-encompassing idea that anyone in America is given constitutional rights. That would include aliens, illegal migrants, illegal migrant criminals, terrorists and must also include supposed enemy combatants that are fighting in America against Americans.
The latter poses the idea that any retaliation against the enemy combatants could only be done after going to court and obtaining permission. They would have to find an un-American judge of course. No doubt they could find one.
I did just a little bit of research on line and what I found so far agrees with The Breeze's first paragraph. Somehow I don't think that can be the right interpretation. To give terrorists (or dug in criminal organizations such as the Venezuelan gangs) the constitutional rights of American citizens is just very hard for me and I think most other Americans to accept.
Even our own American criminals don't have that privilege.
I went through the Constitution and noted that Amendment 14 defines a US citizen. Amendments 15, 19, 24 and 26 specifically use U.S. Citizens as those amendments being applicable to them. How can one interrupt that the constitution applies to everyone who is in the boundary of the United States rather than just to the citizens who deserve that privilege?
I don't see how even a fine illegal immigrant can receive rights of true Americans. An American citizen is special. He has either been born as an American or obtained the legal right to be one.
Of course more and more injunctions against almost everything Trump is doing reveals a systemic attempt to stop Trump from almost everything he is doing to root out crime, fraud, and excesses to special interest that has grown into our government to the point where we cannot afford the mammoth amount of money used. Those on the left never mention the many corrections Trump is making to immigration, crime, trade, education and the list on.
Our budget last year was $4.9 trillion and our expenditures were $6.8 trillion. Over $1 trillion was just servicing the debt so debt is a self-propelling machine.
Without taking strong actions that Trump is taking, we will someday have no constitution. We will be a weak socialistic state.
What the justice system is trying to do is be president. When a lowly federal judge can govern Trump's actions to this degree, we have lost the presidential power that a president must have to govern America. The president was elected, not the lowly judges. Granted there needs to be some limits but we are in a zone of no limits for the judiciary.
I hope The Breeze will explain how this can be and how we can be a democracy with a lowly judge becoming president when an extreme group uses an insignificant, unelected judge to thwart the president.
John Benedict
Cape Coral